City of Newton v. Trustees of State Colleges

The plaintiffs, the City of Newton and the Trustees of the Chestnut Hill Farm Association, sought a declaration that a certain taking by the defendants of 30.9 acres of land in the city belonging to the plaintiff trustees and of related rights of way was invalid and that subsequent takings by the city of the same land and additional land were valid. Several residents of the vicinity were permitted *669to intervene as plaintiffs. After trial the judge made a report and a final decree declaring that the taking by the defendants was valid and the subsequent attempted takings by the city were void,…